Brining the chicken is a MUST because it seems to help make the chicken juicier. To brine, first mix 4 cups of cold water with ¼ cup of kosher salt and ¼ cup of brown sugar. Stir until dissolved. Wash and put the boneless, skinless chicken strips in a gallon size zip-lock bag and pour the brine mixture in the bag and refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours. Now, it is time to make the marinade.
Marinade ingredients:
1-1/2 cups of apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup olive oil
Juice from one lemon or lime (whichever you prefer – mixing both is tasty too)
1/2 cup orange juice
8 tsp of minced garlic
1/4 cup honey
1 cup of Heinz 57 sauce
1/2 cup of Worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup A-1 Marinade
Tabasco to taste
4 tsp flaked red pepper
1 tsp garlic powder
Remove the chicken strips from the brine and rinse and pat dry with a paper towel. Submerge the chicken strips in the marinade (you can use a Tupperware type bowl with a lid, a zip-lock bag or for best results a Vacuvin Marinater) and refrigerate a minimum of 4 to 6 hours. Please note it is best to let them soak overnight. You should set aside some of the marinade to baste the chicken breasts when cooking. Remove and grill. And that’s pretty much it. Good luck!
Finally finished the 2009 Adventure book – (Preview Book). 470 Photos in 240 pages using BookSmart by blurb.com. This is the third year I have used blurb.com to produce our custom print on demand annual. A new feature of the application I really enjoyed this year is that you can now edit the fixed layouts and create your own new custom layouts. I didn’t use that feature as much as I would like to have done on this years book mainly because of the rush to get it out. I intended to do more customization going forward. If I can just discipline myself to build this thing each month vs. the entire thing at the end of the year.
Mr. Smog, a Bearded Dragon may become our newest pet if I don’t manage to get him back to Plum Tree Montessori soon. Caroline is totally obsessed with him and getting awfully attached to him. He is kind of neat.
It’s the first real potential for snowfall this winter and I am looking forward to it. The sooner the better I say. I want to go have some fun with the family in the snow.
The Known Universe is from the American Museum of Natural History and shows a view of the universe, starting from the Himalayas and quickly moving out to the edge where all is black and scary – this was made possible by the records in the Digital Universe Atlas.
Burgess Falls State Park is a state park and state natural area in Putnam County and White County, Tennessee, located in the Southeastern United States. The park is situated around a steep gorge in which the Falling Water River drops 250 feet (76 m) in elevation in less than a mile, culminating in a 136-foot (41 m) cataract waterfall.
I was fortunate enough to be able to visit this park while on the way for a weekend camping at Standing Stone State Park. This place is totally amazing, it was like walking on to the set of Jurassic Park. The hike down the falls is pretty strenuous and along several sections the trail has a 20-40 foot drop down one side. So be careful particularly with children if you take them along like I did. Continue reading »
Everybody needs their own personal mission statement. Fortunately there are resources available on the internet to assist us in creating one without having to actually think about it. Mission Statement Generator by Dilbert
Sample mission examples:
Our challenge is to seamlessly provide access to emerging opportunities while maintaining the highest standards
or
We interactively leverage other’s parallel paradigms and assertively maintain high-payoff benefits to stay competitive in tomorrow’s world
or
It is our business to professionally enhance prospective products and services so that we may quickly create timely deliverables to exceed customer expectations
or
It is our mission to interactively create high standards in intellectual capital as well as to competently disseminate virtual deliverables
It’s addictive, seriously, go create your own. Enjoy, David
I was looking for a good place to get T’s done for the group and I ran across Cafepress.com. You should really go check it out. They have all kinds of stuff you can create. I tried to do some versions of shirts we might want to use. I think I like the off white with the brown logo best personally. Does anybody have a preference? Pat can you help me out by doing a PNG of both the brown and the black logo? The final product will be much better that way.
Everybody needs their own personal mission statement. Fortunately there are resources available on the internet to assist us in creating one without having to actually think about it. 
